Los Angeles Askanim Meet with New LA County Medical Examiner-Coroner
On Friday, August 18, Agudath Israel of California presidium members, Rabbi Berish Goldenberg and Dr. Irving Lebovics met with Dr. Jonathan Lucas, the new Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner for Los Angeles...
View ArticleFrom Foster Home to Foster Home
-Communicated- Leah Y of Bnei Brak was 12 years old when her father passed away. Immediately after his passing, her family began to disintegrate. Her mother became ill with cancer, and unable to...
View ArticleTenka Rov Visits the Phoenix Mikvah
The greater Phoenix community was honored to welcome the Tenka Rov, Rav Chaim Elozor Friedman, for a few days. The Rov has taken the Phoenix Mikvah under his fatherly care and has been instrumental in...
View ArticleNew Kiryat Belz
Two hundred families will soon move to the almost completed Kiryat Belz in Natzrat Illit. The Belzer Rebbe appointed Rav Naftoli Offman, rosh kollel of Belz’s Birkas Aharon Yeshiva, as rov of the new...
View Article“SAKANA”: R’ Chaim Kanievsky Asked About Evacuating Miami For Hurricane Irma...
Florida in hunkering down in preparation for Hurricane Irma, a record breaking Category 5 storm expected to make landfall in the next few days. Grocery shelves have been emptied, windows are being...
View ArticleMoetzes Gedolei HaTorah Meeting Yesterday at Agudath Israel Headquarters
Yesterday afternoon, the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah met in the downtown Manhattan offices of Agudath Israel of America. Participants in the meeting included (in alphabetical order): Rabbi Simcha Bunim...
View ArticleHalachic Ramifications Of Severe Weather Challenges On Shabbos: State of...
In light of the unfortunate situation in Houston, STAR-K presents the following clips, from a previously recorded webinar, which discuss various halachic ramifications of some severe weather challenges...
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Two New Online Jewish Schools Begin Operating in Russia
The excitement could be felt in the voice of Rabbi Berl Lazar, Chief Rabbi of Russia, as he was honored with opening the first class of the new Jewish Online School. The pure faces of dozens of Jewish...
View ArticleWatch: Halachic Ramifications Of Severe Weather Challenges On Shabbos:...
In light of the unfortunate situation in Houston, STAR-K presents the following clips, from a previously recorded webinar, which discuss various halachic ramifications of some severe weather challenges...
View ArticleIDF Fails To Meet Yeshiva Draft Quota for Seventh Year
The army failed to meet the yeshiva draft quota for the seventh year running. The gap between recruits and rising quotas is growing ever larger. 2,800 yeshiva students enlisted during the 2016 draft...
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Help Agudah Help Yidden in Houston
Agudath Israel of America’s hopes and prayers are with the residents of Houston and other Galveston Bay cities, who are struggling with the ongoing rain and terrible flooding brought by Hurricane...
View ArticleRav Yitzchok Yosef: My Father Studied Kabbolah
It is often said that Rav Ovadiah Yosef studied Kabbolas seforim and hid it from the public eye. During a recent drosha, his son, Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, said that Rav Ovadiah even concealed this...
View ArticleDo it With a Smile
Rabbi Pinchos Lipschutz This week’s parsha contains many brachos, and also numerous klalos. If we follow the path of Hashem, we will be blessed, and if we don’t, we will come to regret having strayed....
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Watch: Halachic Ramifications Of Severe Weather Challenges On Shabbos:...
In light of the unfortunate situation in Houston, STAR-K presents the following clips, from a previously recorded webinar, which discuss various halachic ramifications of some severe weather challenges...
View ArticleToronto To Host Shuvu’s Nosi, Dayan Yonason Abraham
Shabbos Parshas Ki Savo promises to be special for the Toronto Jewish community, as London’s Dayan Yonason Abraham, nosi of Shuvu, is scheduled to deliver three drashos and a halacha shiur to the...
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Rav Chaim Kanievsky’s Explanation for the Chicken On the Chazon Ish’s Kever
Two weeks ago, a man went to the bais hachaim in Bnei Brak to daven at the kever of the Chazon Ish. Upon arriving at the kever, he was surprised to see a chicken resting on it. It was a strange sight....
View ArticleResilient Responses To Natural Disaster
by Rabbi Dr, Dovid Fox In popular thought, a crisis triggered by a cataclysmic event involving a change in the natural order of life is referred to as a “natural disaster.” We have come to assume that...
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